Chapter 140: let him misunderstand
A white light eNovelFireanated from Neveah's grey eyes as he ordered, "Stop!"
Like puppets with their strings cut, the weaker will attackers, fell to the ground, overcome by the sheer weight of his will.
Yet, amidst the fallen, a handful remained fine and unaffected. Pseudo seven stars and a few strong Six-Stars who continued their assault. The shadow soldiersvengaged them with deadly attacks.
But a deep frown formed on Neveah's face.
"These are some Pseudos and Six-Stars," he muttered with confusion. "They should be affected by my influence… yet this?"
A voice, cool and collected, sounded in his mind. "Young Master, they can't be influenced by you if they didn't make eye contact by destroying their own eyes or hear your voice by destroying their eardrums. And they are refusing to regenerate them." Said Sharon.
"So you are back…Where were you?"he said.
"Young Master, that is not important right now," Sharon replied dismissively.
Neveah rolled his eyes. "Right…" . "But to think they would be so desperate… sabotaging their own senses to avoid being Charmed... Respect," he conceded with admiration.
Suddenly, with a swift movement, Neveah sliced open his palm. Blood welled up and flowed out when it couldn't accumulate any further but it defied gravity not dropping on the ground... it bagan twisting and coiling in mid-air.
A dark crimson whip blade, formed entirely of his own blood, materialized in his hand. He wielded it with a grace, the whip of crimson that lashed out like a dog tail as if it had it's own mind. It slashed through the air with loud whip slash sounds.
His attackers fell before him, lifeless, cut by the blood whip blade and skewered by ice stakes that erupted from the ground piercing their hearts and brains.
"I think I might like this blood whip magic," Neveah thought looking at the blade with a suspicious glint in his eyes. "It's good at handling… these group attack situations."
Thirty minutes passed. The sounds of screams and clashing weapons had finally subsided, leaving behind an peaceful silence that was momentarily disrupted by breaths and groans of the unconscious civilians and those who were waking up.
Black embers of energy slithered around the corpses, the remnants of Neveah's shadow soldiers slowly dissolving back into his shadow.
And new ones began to rise from the corpses and blood-soaked ground, their forms condensing into shadow soldiers that also dissolve into Neveah's shadow.
Suddenly a group of figures materialized atop the nearest rooftop, their leader a tall man with an aura crackling with ferocious power.
Bolts of blue lightning crackled around his crossed hands, the light from his body giving off a blue hue to his sorroundings. It was Kai!
His face contorted in fury as he looked around and surveyed the scene below. His eyes widened in horror as they took in the bloody bodies, the dismembered limbs and heads and the sheer devastation that lay before him. He even spotted civilians laid unconscious amongst the carnage, some of them children?
"What did you do?!" he roared in rage.
Neveah, however, remained silent, his expression unreadable because of the mask. He simply stood there like an imposing figure amidst the ruins, his blood whip blade slowly became red mist that entered became lighter and more transparent as it finally disappeared.
Kai's looked at the black masked man who he thought was the cause of all this, Neveah. "You bastard! Even children…" he said his voice trembling in anger. "You heartless monster!"
Sharon opened her mouth to speak,"I think he's misunderstanding something," Sharon said finally.
"Well... are you going to let him?" she asked.
Neveah's lips curved into a small smile that no one saw because of jis mask. "It's my first time fighting against a lightning type Vampire," he said, " I'll just let him misunderstand for a while."
Then, with a mental command, he addressed his soldiers. "Soldiers, gather information on the territory and territory leader here. And some should remain and stop anyone from trying to interfere with my fight." He ordered telepathically.
But he then thought," Can they even do that? And do I have a range limit? Oh well... It's an experiment. I'll learn after thorough testing. " Thought Neveah.
The shadow soldiers acknowledged the order before dispersing into the shadows, melting away into the shadows.
Kai, his anger making his aura spike as his lightning crackled more violently."Are you going to answer me!?"
Neveah's smile widened behind the mask "Make me," he replied, even though he couldn't see it Kai felt this bastard was smiling, he didn't like the way he spoke.
Infuriated beyond reason Kai stretched his hand and unleashed a bolt of condensed lightning, a fast projectile aimed straight at Neveah.
Neveah, however, was faster. He sidestepped the bolt but the discharge struck the ground next to him, instantly shattering the dome of ice Neveah had erected in at that place he was previously at. Yes, Neveah was experimenting again.
Neveah clicked his tongue in annoyance as the ice melted before even being struck by the beam.
Fury made Kai's face red with his veins bulging threatening to pop when he saw Neveah standing amidst the carnage, unfazed undamaged and nonchalant.
With a snort, Kai coated himself in lightning, his body became charged with it, at his fists and feet, the lightning condensed greater into gloves and boots. He suddenly attacked Neveah with a barrage of kicks and combos of punches and kicks. His fists were hot.
Neveah decided and met each blow head-on, his body a tanking the onslaught.
Kai's lightning-coated fist and feet hit Neveah's body in quick movements burning his flesh and his clothes and leaving smoking holes and burnt skin.
But Neveah didn't flinch. He countered with his own dark-red flame-coated fist, while was trying to condense his flames into gloves like Kai's.
The clash between them was devastating . Kai, a storm embodiment, rained down blows with fury. But Neveah paid them back with bone-crushing punches and heavy kicks. Both were taking damage but unlike Neveah Kai's regenerative abilities struggling to keep up with the relentless assault.
A memory surfaced in Neveah's mind, when Valeriana told him ..."Lightning is a mutation of fire element but it is the purest form of fire…"